At the Boulder Quest Center seminar recently, I asked head instructor Mary Aitoshi Casey and a few other skilled female practitioners how they related to my constant emphasis on the realities of street self-defense. Other martial arts are prettier than our To-Shin Do. Maybe such things would appeal more to women? I am always talking […]

“Do you guys spar in your martial art? I read on the internet you only practice techniques against a cooperating training partner.” A visitor was checking out our dojo, and wanted to clear up something that was getting in the way of his enrolling with us. There is a lot of outright ignorance on the […]